Mon oncle Antoine

Mon oncle Antoine
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Claude Jutra
Written by	Clément Perron
Produced by	Marc Beaudet [fr]
Starring	Jacques Gagnon Jean Duceppe Olivette Thibault Lionel Villeneuve Claude Jutra
Cinematography	Michel Brault
Edited by	Claire Boyer Claude Jutra
Music by	Jean Cousineau
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release dates	July 1971 (1971-07) (Moscow) 12 November 1971 (1971-11-12) (Canada)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French
Box office	$750,000

Mon oncle Antoine (My Uncle Antoine) is a 1971 French-language Canadian drama film directed by Claude Jutra for the National Film Board of Canada.

The film depicts life in the Maurice Duplessis-era Asbestos Region of rural Québec before the Asbestos Strike of 1949. Set at Christmas time, the story is told from the point of view of 15-year-old boy Benoît (Jacques Gagnon) who is coming of age in a mining town. The Asbestos Strike is regarded by Québec historians as a seminal event in the years before the Quiet Revolution (c. 1959–1970).

The film is an examination of the social conditions in Québec's old, agrarian, conservative and cleric-dominated society on the eve of the social and political changes that transformed the province a decade later.^[1]